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Jack Wilson Mfa Thesis 2014: Chasing The Unicorn, Jack T. Wilson
Jack Wilson Mfa Thesis 2014: Chasing The Unicorn, Jack T. Wilson
CGU MFA Theses
More than anything, my art practice is about overcoming the proclivity to collude with stagnation. Somewhere in the middle of the endless pugilistic battle between consciousness and unconsciousness lies my work, positioned in between the tension of the known and the unknown. The line and the absence of it. The edge and the center. Instinctively, we surround the unknown/other with fear. When encountering a dark shape lying in my path, I automatically jump. The stick might be a snake. Although my survival mechanisms have built walls between the light and the dark, through my work I wish to illuminate things …
The Biomorphic Grotesque In Modernist And Contemporary Painting, Audrey Howell
The Biomorphic Grotesque In Modernist And Contemporary Painting, Audrey Howell
Scripps Senior Theses
This paper looks at the concepts of the biomorphic and grotesque in art from the start of the 20th century to the present with a focus on painting and drawing. Included in the discussion of the grotesque throughout history are the works of Dadaist Otto Dix, painter Georg Baselitz, and feminist artists Judy Chicago, Hannah Wilke, and Ana Mendieta. Each used grotesque imagery to comment or react to a larger sociopolitical issue. Biomorphic artworks from the 20th century are mentioned as well, with specific examples of work by Lee Krasner, Willem DeKooning, and Hans Bellmer. These artists together …
Le Corps Propre, Andrea M. Breiling
Le Corps Propre, Andrea M. Breiling
CGU MFA Theses
Le Corpse Propre, is a series of large scaled paintings; performative archaeological stripteases through which layers of material stratigraphy reveal themselves through a deliberate process of revealing and concealing.
Sally Bruno, Sally Bruno
Sally Bruno, Sally Bruno
CGU MFA Theses
My investigation starts with an examination of color, form and line. It continues with an examination of how these elements collide and collude to form objects both abstract and representational. What interests me is the intersection between formal abstraction and representational imagery. My goal is to combine these practices in a rigorous, epistemological inquiry into how human beings make sense of their surroundings, using our minds and our bodies, our perceptions and our expectations, to come to understand the visible world and our embodied relationship to it.
Mana & Ea, Dan Taulapapa Mcmullin
Mana & Ea, Dan Taulapapa Mcmullin
The STEAM Journal
This work, Mana and Ea, expresses Polynesian indigenous sovereignty struggles with colonialism and globalism in the Pacific Islands.
The Quantified Self, Behind The Cover Art, Leslie Love Stone
The Quantified Self, Behind The Cover Art, Leslie Love Stone
The STEAM Journal
We lead quantified lives. The information we send and receive through our computers, CD players, and smart phones is coded in ones and zeroes. We exist as numerical accounts, license numbers, and login IDs. Anyone who has ever waited on hold for a live customer service representative understands the desire to be treated like a person, not a number. We each want acceptance for our inherent peculiarities and consideration for our circumstance—conditions we believe extrinsic to numbers.
Rope-A-Dope, Gabriel L. Perez
Rope-A-Dope, Gabriel L. Perez
CGU MFA Theses
I create from everyday items, coming from everyday people. I do not think that what I create is too difficult for anyone to understand but I know that although I created it, it eludes me. Plastic containers, disposables, and clothing reach out to eyes that see them differently. I’m not trying to make people see things differently; I’m just trying to make you look. Call it theatrics but with a history of various performance experiences, I am not above pulling a cheap trick to get your attention. Nor will I shun the lingo and logic of decoration since I am …